"The best mirror is an old friend."
"'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'"
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Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel.
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